Chapter 1 Construction Contracts: Risk-Shifting Devices

Index

Section 1.1 Introduction
Section 1.2 Bids
Section 1.3 Bid Qualifications
Section 1.4 Bid Ambiguities
Section 1.5 Incorporation by Reference
Section 1.6 Flow-Down Clauses
Section 1.7 Scope of Work
Section 1.8 Owner’s Implied Warranty for Plans and Specifications: The Spearin Doctrine
Section 1.9 Payment Terms
Section 1.10 Progress Payments
Section 1.11 Final Payment
Section 1.12 Retainage
Section 1.13 What Is Retainage?
Section 1.14 Retainage Is for Whose Benefit?
Section 1.15 Legislative and Regulatory Reform
Section 1.16 Federal
Section 1.17 Missouri—Public Work
Section 1.18 Missouri—Private Work
Section 1.19 Other States
Section 1.20 Constitutionality of Mandatory Retainage Statutes
Section 1.21 “Property Interests” Under the Fourteenth Amendment
Section 1.22 Deprivation of Protected Property
Section 1.23 Due Process
Section 1.24 Caselaw
Section 1.25 Leading United States Supreme Court Cases
Section 1.26 Performance Surety Trumps Bank’s Claim to Retainage
Section 1.27 Payment Surety Trumps Bank’s Claim to Retainage/Contract Balance
Section 1.28 Payment Surety Trumps General Contractor’s Bankruptcy Trustee’s Claim to Retainage
Section 1.29 Government (as Owner) Trumps Payment Surety’s Claim to Retainage
Section 1.30 Department of the Army v. Blue Fox, Inc.
Section 1.31 Kennedy Electric Co. v. United Postal Service
Section 1.32 United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission
Section 1.33 Miller-Stauch Construction Co. v. Williams-Bungart Electric, Inc.
Section 1.34 Chang v. Redding Bank of Commerce
Section 1.35 Aquilino v. United States
Section 1.36 United States v. L.C. Chapman
Section 1.37 United States v. TAC Construction Co.
Section 1.38 Trinity Universal Insurance Co. v. United States
Section 1.39 Victore Insurance Co. v. City of Bowie
Section 1.40 Framingham Trust Co. v. Gould-National Batteries, Inc.
Section 1.41 First State Bank v. Reorganized School District R-3, Bunker
Section 1.42 Contingent Payment Clauses
Section 1.43 Trilogy of Florida Cases
Section 1.44 Burden of Clear Expression
Section 1.45 Missouri Caselaw
Section 1.46 Other States
Section 1.47 Statutes
Section 1.48 Negotiating Strategy
Section 1.49 Current State of the Law in Missouri
Section 1.50 Indemnity and Insurance Clauses
Section 1.51 Types of Indemnification Clauses
Section 1.52 Broad Form
Section 1.53 Intermediate Form
Section 1.54 Limited Form
Section 1.55 Insurance for Contractually Assumed Liability
Section 1.56 Insurance Coverage Required by the Contract
Section 1.57 Builder’s Risk Insurance
Section 1.58 Indemnification for Safety and Hazardous Substances
Section 1.59 Time of Commencement and Completion
Section 1.60 No Damage for Delay
Section 1.61 Changes
Section 1.62 Termination for Convenience
Section 1.63 Design Responsibility
Section 1.64 Releases